Photographer Frank Mk Meiken - Ordered by USAF as KC-135A, modified to EC-135H airborne command post

Built as a KC-135A, modified to EC-135H and assigned to the 7120th Airborne Command and Control Squadron in mid-1967. The Airborne Command Post was moved to RAF Mildenhall to fly with the 10th ACCS, to support the United States Commander-in-Chief, Europe. The squadron was inactivated at the end of 1991. 61-0262 was transferred to the 4th ACCS and was later on modified to GEC-135H and assigned to the 82nd TRW as a ground instructional airframe at Sheppard AFB (TX).

One of the four EC-13Hs based at MIldenhall.

One of the small complement of four EC-135s resident at Mildenhall with 10th ACCS, 513th TAW during the 1970s/80s.

Built as a KC-135A, this aircraft was modified to EC-135H and served through the years the 7120th, 10th (as pictured) and the 4th Airborne Command and Control Squadron. The aircraft was rebuilt to GEC-135H in mid-1992 and served since as an instructional airframe at Sheppard AFB (TX). The 10th ACCS crews flew the Airborne Command Post to support the US Commander-in-Chief, Europe. The aircraft also served as aerial tankers from 1972. The ECs provided communications support during the exercises and the cold war in support of NATO, and other agencies following overwater routes near Europe.

PRESERVED AT SHEPPARD AFB AND USED AS INSTRUCTIONAL AIRFRAMES

10th Airborne Command & Control Squadron with original Pratt & Whitney J-57 engines.

Electronic version operated by the USAF's 7210 Airborne Command and Control Squadron.